Being someone’s friend is an important role to play. There are times when your friend will confide in you. You may be asked to keep a deep dark secret. That is a huge responsibility to take on, especially if you are a person who cannot keep a secret. These tips will help you to maintain your integrity by not divulging the secret.
When you are asked to keep a secret for someone. It is because that person, trust you enough to confide in you. If you are tempted to tell someone the secret, think about the long-term consequences. Consider yourself in your friend’s position. You won’t want someone to divulge your secret.
Be careful of the tricks that some people will play to get the secret out of you. Sometimes the way you answer a question, can give people a hint that you have a specific secret.
Do not tell someone else the secret, just because you had an argument with your friend. If you both had a disagreement, the secret should still be kept a secret.
Don’t confide in another friend. Remember, if you tell one person, it is no longer a secret. Once that secret is told, you cannot control how the other person will deal with it.
Think about what you will gain if you reveal a secret. Revealing someone’s secret can ruin that person reputation for life. Your reputation will also be ruined. People will no longer have the same respect for you, because you failed to honor someone’s wishes.
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“Think about what you will gain if you reveal a secret. Revealing someone’s secret can ruin that person reputation for life. Your reputation will also be ruined. People will no longer have the same respect for you, because you failed to honor someone’s wishes.”
Yes this is so true! There have been many times where I wanted to share a secret with someone close but then remembered how quickly they told me someone else’s personal business and I was left with the feeling thatif it was so easy to share that other person’s personal info ..then this person would probably do the same to me so I had to keep the secret to myself…better for me to know that it is actually being kept a secret..
my problem has always been that the person confiding in me, confides in others and in the end of the situation they make it seem like i’m the one that talked. i’ve had this happen in past circle of friends and even at my old job. people talk to me all the time so i knew the happs on alot of stuff but my thing was if you thought i said something then ask…and what was funny was that this one particular person knew that one of their closer friends had a big mouth but i was the one he stopped talking to. so my plea is to those who have the secret – dont confide in everyone and think it’s going to stay a secret and look at the number of people you confided in before you start thinking someone told everyone cause that someone may have been you.